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I'm very fortunate my brother had some spare space in his factory but I'm on borrowed time now as half of his stuff has a coating of fibreglass dust.... Im just clearing my garage and ill be the same as you soon...although i have no idea where all the stuff in my garage is going....

Thanks. Fingers crossed they work. They've talen me about 8 weeks to get right with the body and the window frame. I just hope they work post paintshop...eeek

Been a busy few weeks. Getting ready for primer this week. All lights at the front wired up and ready to go. Still got the rear to do Chrome rain channels back from the chromers and ready fitting checked. Hopefully primer on this week to prep for the bodyshop.

That looks fabulous. Nice job

This week has been more bodywork and re doing the aluminium rain channels...again. they were not sitting right enough for me. But main achievement this week is the bespoke fibreglass brake vent covers. I wanted to make them interchangeable but that got too complicated so they are now fixed to...

Rear end work today. The boot was very proud of the body when closed despite playing with the hinge locators. Body worked up and guide coat primer on it. Needs quite a bit of work this week to level off with the boot but it feels better already Also worked up the body to the passenger...

That's looking really good @Duncodin. A lot of work clearly going into that front end and it looks great. I do like that slimmer grill front

Drivers side door finished and now working on passenger door. The door needed quite a bit of work to fit to the body with the screw locations set in the door. The door still sits proud of the body similar to the drivers side so im going to have to work that to the door this week. The boot needs...

I've been working on the drivers door today. Having set the rain channel / A Pillar and door skin i can now level the door skin to the surrounding body panels. The door skin aligns reasonably well with the front bonnet section but sits quite proud of the rear body section. Ive adjusted the door...

It takes a bit of jiggery pokery but it works. Good tip i learnt by doing it ia drill the holes through the door and skin for locating them rivet nuts. Make the rivet nut expand using the tool but not in the door, just on the tool. Then make the holes in the door skin a lot bigger than the...

Here you go @Duncodin. The bolts go through the door edges as show here. I got the tip from another coupe builder. The rivet nuts are in the door as the image shows. Its rough on the inside at the moment but who cares as you can't see it. I have the rivet nuts countersunk more than shows here...

Ill take some photos this evening. Im making them so that they could be removed, more than generally removable. I will add a little amount of sealant and spot bond at the edges, with some sealant too, so with a thin sharp blade I could break the bond spots.

The rain chanel has been a nightmare but im getting there. I've heat bent the metal around the door opening with a constant gap between it and the window frame. But on doing this im needing to rework the A pillar to make the rain channel / body / window frames to all match and align. The...

Door skins. I've decide to make the door skins removable as i dont trust that the chrome windows wont need rechroming in the future at some point and I dont want to cut the door out to get the off. So the door skins will be removable. Ive used M4 rivet nuts around the edges of the door skin...

Been quite busy this fortnight. First task was to reduce the travel on the door latches so the door skins dont hit the front bonnet hinges. I used a large nut and a couple of washers before resetting in the door. This gives me enough travel to open the door but keeps the edge away from the...

Thanks, a bit like eating pizza...got to keep going at it otherwise I'll stop. Yes painting is not cheap but will be interested to see yours when done. It will look stunning in sure!!

Last few days have been productive with making the rain channels. I'm using a technique recommended to me from another Coupe builder, with a length of aluminium coping that has a J shape to it. I made a template of the window frame from OSB board screwed to a larger section of OSB board. I've...

They are permanent hinges from Triumph TR4 rear boot. I was recommended them from another Tribute Coupe builder. My full front lifts up much like your 507 but I wanted access to the engine via the small bonnet. I thought about bolting it to the body panel but I thought if adding water etc it...

Ive got the front end to a rough shape that I can work with better. I've got rid of the factory flat spots/ridges and panel joins. I just need to get all long flat edge over them all to finish off shaping. I'll do that later as the windows are back from the chromers and I need to progrss with...

I've just seen it looks like you're doing a Cali build. Id love to do one of those after this.